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  • ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡CARGANDO PILAS!!!!!!!

  • Also, the old man in each scene represents Violetta's impending death.

  • I disagree with the bashers of the set and staging. It is simple, yet stark and empty. It shows her inner misery. Dressing the chorus in suits shows how alone she feels in the world and also how she sees Alfredo initially, as just another client in a sea of stuffed shirts. And for the record, Verdi wanted the cast to wear modern attire but the censorship people made them wear outfits from a hundred years earlier instead, so the situation wouldn't seem as realistic.

  • It would seem that whoever thought up this set has absolutely no idea what opera is all about. On the other hand one might surmise that the set came from a Salvation army discount sale because the opera company ran out of money to do it right

  • Nice voice. But I hate the set. Stripped down and ugly. Modern "artistic" opera settings are done only to flatter the ego of the designer. Traditional opera settings are more in keeping with the feel of the opera. And dressing the chorus women in suits. Are all of Violetta's guests supposed to be men? She's a cortesan, not a slut!

  • it is nice

  • Superb singing and acting by the three principals make it a great production, but I very much dislike the sets and costumes, which decidedly detract.

  • brillaint voices, but she does seem to have trouble breathing throughout this rendition!

  • awesome!!!

  • Bravo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Les voix sont belles, mais la mise en scène, comme de plus en plus souvent, une merde infame. L'opéra est bien mal servi par des metteurs en scène dont l'ego surdimensionné leur fait oublier qu'ils sont tout petits devant les chefs d'oeuvre qu'on leur confie!!!!! Humilité mesdames et messieurs

  • it's no men only it's a mixed coro but she although wear suit.

    you can see it an you should hear it

  • Correct me if I'm wrong, but is she sick? She seems to have trouble breathing. Like her nose was stuffed or something.

  • @leporelloaa Maybe she trying to sound like someone dying of consumption.

  • why is it an all men's coro?

  • I don't usually like operatic productions that alter the period setting of the piece. However, the minimalist set works incredibly well here. I absolutely get what the director was going for.

  • @Avyncentia I actually dont usually like that either but I agree with you that in this case it does work out nicely

  • MMM very sexy and smouldering - just not keen on the bit when David Cameron tries to grab her amongst all the other blokes

  • I love that opera has survived to the modern day I absolutely detest old fashioned staid productions the themes are so profound that there re interpretation is what makes them valid and vital

  • I prefer Gheorghiu but that does not mean that I do not think Netrobko is pryskrana and ochin krasyvaya

  • just amazing....one of my favourite "songs"!!!!

  • I would rather prefer the original traviata because I don't like modern adaptations of Opera but I certainly LOVE this one. only for Netrebko appearing. (L)

  • ¡Dios Santo! Tenía que comentar aquí el naco

  • Mr Bean lol

  • Die göttliche Anna !!

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  • esa vieja esta re buena

  • Bravo, Bravissimo!

  • I wonder… when did opera become musical theatre? I wonder… when did opera become musical theatre? The production certainly would feel at home on Broadway. Sadly, so would the general abilities of the soloists.

  • Wow! Amo questa canzone!!!! Anna Netrebko <3

  • all those guys wants to bang the same girl - sausage fests don't get much worse

  • tout simplement splendide.Voix exceptionnelles,élégances,brav­issimo

  • I've seen this performance on TV - it's just amazing!!

    and this is my fave part of La Traviata! <3

  • как красиво...

  • Quiero ese vestidooooo <3

  • desde sutherland y pavarotti no ha vido mejor convinacion

  • Great stuff!

  • I love this part and how they do it beautifully!

  • wut is this opera about?

  • @RelleRoulette Google for "La Traviata synopsis", the first hit will tell you the story.

  • love it! both amazing! shocking but great

  • Alguna vez la vida me permitió cantar esta aria con Lísida.

  • cantan muy bien, la verdd no se mucho de opera, pero no se supone que era un clima festivo?o sea no se corresponte con la actuacion y ademas la flor en el pecho es de habanera

  • muy buenas voces,pero la puesta en escena ,es muy pobre y no transmite al espectador su real historia.

  • @sofia970 , para bien o para mal actualmente ese tipo de puestas en escena es lo que prima en los países teutones ( ni lo critico ni lo apruebo, va a gustos, solo comento

  • muy buenas voces,pero la puesta en escena ,es muy pobre y no transmite al espectador su real historia.

  • they don't even have mics!

  • @TheDimzz opera singers sometimes may have microphones in their clothes or hair when it is necessary to record HQ 3D sound for DVD

  • @TheDimzz Operatic singing is UNAMLIFIED singing. There may be mics for recording, but never amplification except for outdoors where the acoustics is bad. Remember, most operas were written long before mics and most opera theaters in Europe are just as old. Opera singers are trained to project their voices and use their full bodies for resonance so that they are heard even in a large opera theater, also opera theaters have good acoustics. Try going to the opera, the sound is amazing.

  • wow!!

  • La Netrebko proprio non mi piace...

  • sie singt einfach unglaublich! Dazu noch dieses stimmungsvolles Lied..MOA;) Irgendwann werde ich auch mal so singen können!

  • She's sexy actress, not prima donna.

  • after he stop being the spaniard prime minister.

  • @Fillanski Were you from?????

  • perfect voices

  • lindo , estou vendo todos os videos desta performance e estou adorando.

  • She is definitely one of the most exciting vocal performers!

  • The greatest combined, amazing.

  • Bravi!

  • BRAVO MAESTRO!!!!!

  • stupendo!

  • Diese Inszenierung aus 2005 von den Salzburger Festspielen ist das Beste dieser Traviata, was ich je gesehen habe. Konzentration aufs Wesentliche und unschlagbare Sänger und Bühnenschauspieler.

  • das beste was in der letzten Zeit auf die Opernbühne gekommen ist .

  • bella l'ho seguita oggi all'orchestra sinfonica nazionale della rai su raiuno

  • wunderschön inszeniert - sehr modern - trotzdem wunderschön

  • wunderbar inszeniert - sehr modern - aber wunderschön!

  • i love this this is best

  • Fantastico?

    Die beste TRAVIATA aller Zeiten!!!!

    Der Bullshit galt Swanningaround.

  • FANTASTICO -

    leider nicht bis ins NeandertHal zum Girl ;-)

    Wir kennen nun den Grund -

    für die Durchsetzung des modernen Menschen........

  • I don't like this production which is very European. There is quite a cultural difference between Europe and other places. I prefer this production, although the singers are more suited to South American tastes.

    Kraus & Te Kanawa (Brindis "La Traviata" 1992)

  • omg anna you are hot

  • That's only fair it's your taste!

    But you stand alone with your taste because it is one of three best Traviatas ever.

    There's none so blind as those who will not see.

  • I looked at the other blogs and found that I am not alone in disliking this treatment of the opera. Watch the film Carmen Jones. It is based on Carmen set in another time but the storyline and acting are in sync with the songs. Would you countenance someone singing Lascia ch'io pianga with a smiling face?

  • OK. I'm trying to understand this different rendition of Libiamo here. The lyrics are happily carefree so I wondered why Villazon was acting like an angry drunk. And in the first place why did Netrebko made that jilting gesture. Now I understand but I must say the lyrics do not go well with the action here. I am used to hearing this Brindisi with a background of joyful carousing. I do not like this version at all.

  • You can't blame Villazon or Netrebko about this: it's clearly the director's artistic view, a new one indeed. Of course you don't have to like it or agree with it, it's perfectly your right to like or dislike it; I just want to point out this is the director's responsibility, not the singers.

  • Who said anything about blaming the singers? I Iike Netrebko well enough and Villazon sings it right. The director should have changed the lyrics to suit his treatment because as it turned out the lyrics are incongruent with the acting

  • @Etnecserc You never mentioned the director in your comment, only the singers, so that could at least be understood (or misunderstood) as blaming the singers. Anna's "jilting gesture" and Rolando's "acting like an angry drunk", after watching the behind-the-scenes, are clearly the director's vision. You can't change the lyrics (unless you translate it into another language), but the staging is nowadays something very free. And it's the director's responsibility. That's all I'm saying.

  • @dcb01ene2000 . I did not deign even to find out who the director was after seeing this execrable interpretation. I do not care to know. I should at least spare him personal excoriation. Of course I knew the singers characterized the roles following directorial specifications. Only a fanatic would interpret my previous comments as reflecting negatively on the singers.

  • @Etnecserc Well, I'm not a fanatic at all. Of anything. I haven't called you "this" or "that" because simply I don't know you. Would you please give me back the same courtesy? Disagreements are always welcome, but with respect, please. If I have said something that offended you, then I apologize: that was never my intention.

  • OK. I am reciprocating the apology. I regret using the word "fanatic." It is a misunderstanding caused by our coming from different cultures. As I said in my original post, I was trying to understand what was happening in the opera with its new twist. I understood but I still could not reconcile the lyrics with the action. Yes, the lyrics could have been changed just as in Handel's Lascia ch'io pianga which was sang as Lascia la spina cogli la rosa in another setting.

  • That is the central part of the opera in which we see a different Violetta and Anna Netrebko is a a good actress as well. I saw her in Vienna.

    Anna Netrebko is one of the worlds most stunning sopranos who sweeps audiences off their feet wherever she appears. She is one of those opera singers who remind you how rarely genuine talent and beauty go together. And, thank God, she's got plenty of them !!!.

  • I love to duet with Netrebko, she the best soprano and the most beautiful to be singing with.

  • A classic XXI century performance despite Avant-garde interpretation. Really high drama. Di Stefano used to say that the most important thing in opera is the drama: the music and singing support the drama.

    Anna has unique "Red gold on dark velvet" voice. Her body language is pure cruelty. Look at 1:07. Amazing charisma.

    Now about lowlifes' comments. Malicious envy is a natural reaction of mediocrity to a true talent. Talk about your experience but please do not answer those posts.

  • What do you mean, Oldkievite ? You're absolutely wrong ! Violetta is a courtesan, a demi-mondaine (Prima donna soprano) according to the libretto. The staging here is OK ! She's just a beautiful courtesan.

  • It's later on that Violetta abandons her happy but empty life and binds with the young nobleman Alfred Germont. Love make wonders and changes her completely. Think of the duet in act 3 in which Violetta asks Germon, Alfredo's father, to hold her tight just as a father holds his daughter.

  • esta muy bonita la cancion.

  • My God! I never saw so low and offensive comments on a person before! If you can't criticise someone in a respectfull way I doubt you're in position to criticise someone. I'm not a great fan of Netrebko - I do like her voice, but not her singing -, but I think that kind of persecution on her is absurd!

  • solo gli italiani possono commentare gli altri sono barbari

  • Wrong Bellaredo, La Scala is alive and very well!! HA! HA ! look at their website, a most beautiful Opera Hall, in the world. It is very imposing. I would think some singers would be afraid to sing there. You know someone like, er, ah, umm, ah,..............Fat Annie Netrebko!!

  • If La Scala is broke, they are not desperate after all to get a whore like Anna Netrebko.

  • Hahahaha....you come from Peru!!!!

  • Yes, this is why Netrebko is afraid to appear at La Scala. They will shred her there. They don't like how she has cheapened Classical Opera. She will be Miss Tomato Head, if she goes to Milan.

    HAW !HAW! HAW! Tomato Head Netrebko!!!

  • Too late. Scala is broke!!

  • Fat or thin, this should not be relevant to judge a singer... But for the quality of some comments here, one could easily judge the stupidity or intelligence of its author.

  • Genitalia, do you think I'm smart, or not so?

  • not really, sorry!

  • You're from Austria. Anna Netrebko lives in Austria!! You don't count Genitalia. Sorry!!

  • I wouldn`t say so - I saw her this spring in the Met`s production of "Lucia", and she looked perfectly OK - and sang much more than just OK !

  • Slobodan Milošević has forgotten you. What a shame!

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  • Spendid..

  • Traviata - Ms. Netrebko displayed ample power, coloratura bravura with a marvelous tone. Having recently heard Natalie Dessay sing Sempre Libera at the Met Gala, one was impressed by the legato nature of Netrebko's portray in contrast to Dessay's intentional staccato, fragmented phrasing interpretation. Having also seen photos of Fleming in her current Violetta at the ROH, one can only marvel at Netrebko's resilience, endurance and commitment to bel canto opera She is made for this type of role

  • I love Anna Netrebko. I couldn't do that <3 Her and Rolando is an amazing "couple".

  • I agree, she is fantastic! Bravo!

  • excellent excellent! Anna Nebtrenko is fantastic!

  • Everybody just likes her looks that's all. She has no substance, or technical expertise. She will still make money though, everybody likes a cute broad.......look at Britney Spears...cute idiot with no talent!! She and Anna should both get into prostitution, they can call it

    " Bang A Pop Slut ".

  • Mr. MTNMANJT is unteachable, sex-starved and perhaps he need the sites of Netrebko and Gheorghiu for his sexual fetish but he couldn't care less about what's going on around him.

    He has not a spark of decency but it's a crucial factor for healthy aging!

    Dirty old man MTNMANJT continues...... but we know why!!! :-))))) LOL

  • it's too loud

  • this is the best version I saw of La traviata , ! Anna Nettrebko is so amazing ...

  • Traviata - Ms. Netrebko displayed ample power, coloratura bravura with a marvelous tone. Having recently heard Natalie Dessay sing Sempre Libera at the Met Gala, one was impressed by the legato nature of Netrebko's portray in contrast to Dessay's intentional staccato, fragmented phrasing interpretation. Having also seen photos of Fleming in her current Violetta at the ROH, one can only marvel at Netrebko's resilience, endurance and commitment to bel canto opera. She is made for this type of role

  • And you Thugman30, man from Mocambique, have lied all the time.

    It's true, you are only a YouTube expert without real knowledge and you BASH Anna Netrebko! What's the reason to be so abusive? Why do you offend thousands of YouTube fans with your lies about Anna?

    She is not perfect, everybody knows it, but why these impertinent lies?

    You should give right now an honest answer, so that we can respect you in future.

  • My comments are for sorkin. Not you OK?

  • Oh sorry!

    But you answer for:

    Leoperarm, Pyrare, Eradesso, Comey, FlyingElephant ASO...!

    That's fact! Everybody can see it!

  • The fact is Netrebko admitted her technical deficiency on NY Times. LOL

  • This shows very plainly that she is beeing a respectably person!

  • Netrebko had to move too much to disguise her throaty, shallow, monotonous voice. What a pity!

    R.I.P VERDI

  • I read very good reviews for Anna,  I like her very much, so I do not understand what is that all about, she is young and beautiful. She has a great voice and a great future, good for her

  • UK-Hater30,

    Europe and the whole world loves Potts, Bocelli, Brightman and Jenkins!

    Why not?

  • Thugman30 brain has no variety of thoughts, no depth, no trills. Thugman30 has poor imagination, a seriously underdeveloped brain activity and on top of all these problems he has poor diction. What are his recent achievements??? He has none because he is too busy bashing successful people while sitting in Mozambique under his favorite palm tree. He had fallen from that tree and broke his tail. Or did he have it removed?

  • No, I'm not one of them but Netrebko is just too shallow. That's why many people ask why is she No.1 to the UK Times.

  • thugman30, why don't you write to the Times (UK) and ask yourself? Why bash Anna for that, she did not vote, other musicians did, have you seen her score?

    Does not seem shallow at all to me

  • The UK Times? They all think like you who also love Bocelli, Brightman, Jenkins and Potts.

  • Hello Aklev,

    Leoperam, Pyrare, Thugman, Eradesso, Mozzrt etc... are only one person.

    He / she has studied in the college of music in Cologne music or song.

    He gets no engagements and projects the hatred on Anna Netrebko, because he / she either sings ABYSMAL, or physical deficits are given. He / she is just a loser and now plays here the YouTube-buffoon!!!!

  • filaredo, they are just "fallen tenors" LOL!

    I am glad to hear that leoperarm and thugman30 (I hope he tells that truth) were never professionally trained, so they are just malicious kids having fun by bashing Anna, but that should not be allowed. So I am not intended to let them

  • filaredo, I always had a feeling that these people are somehow connected to the fact that Anna is marrying Erwin Schrott, - seems that there is a lot of malice from that part of the globe

  • who is Erwin Schrott? whatever...

    Yes, I am a malicious kid having fun by basing YOU! I don't think that Netrebko is as stupid as her 'defenders', she has the mind to trick the 'millions of admirers' and 'opera critics' with her weak, declining voice; you are the ones we laugh at, your ingenuity is so AMAZING! (have I mentioned Dessay?no, so please do not reply with one of those strange and spontaneous soubrette comments^^)

  • leoperarm Erwin Schrott is Netrebko's husband who is also being bashed by thugman30. And I am sure you did not mean to say that Netrebko has a weak voice because nothing can be futher from the turth. At the same time this is completely true about Dessay's childish and unplesant voice. The reason people mention her is to get back at you, so you would feel our pain when we have to read these insulting comments (but mostly from thugman30) I know he has something personal and probably it is SCHROTT

  • Thank you for the information, I later investigated, he's an opera singer too! Wow.

    Ana about Dessay, I don't feel any pain at all nor consider it something personal....simply because I have never met Dessay and I know that her voice defends by itself^^

  • To all - such an enormous hate against Anna can be only explained that there is a silent campaign on you tube. If you read comments on her pages you will see that there is only a few usernames - (some people have several though) who constantly bash and insult her. It has to do with her success and with malicious envy from other singers. Anna by no means deserves any of this, she is a great talent and a wonderful person.

  • Great talent? Where?

  • have you spoke to her for more than 5 minutes in order to say that she doesn't deserve this or that she is a 'wonderful person'? Don't you think that she laughs at your ingenuity at home? Poor creatures.

  • Oh, I see, he's a gospel singer. You right, she's very good but too old to launch a career!

  • As your ignorance always revolve around Netrebko, I have no further expectations from you both. Netrebko has no depth, sounds like a popera singer, no variety of tones, very poor enunciation of the lyrics and no precise control of dynamics.

  • Thugman - don't panic!

    I know, you finger banged Leontyne last night!

    Hey man, is she hot? I think she is, like you, shallow-witted, boring and no depth and dynamic groaning!

  • OMG

    How can you even...

    No words...

    LEONTYNE PRICE! WE LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Gosh, I feel bad for you filaredo.

  • Yes Mr. Leoperarm

    who wants to have education - must also manage smart arses!!

    I'm a creep and here we go!

  • Let's not include Leontyne Price in the thing.

    You've just showed your lack of knowledge on the matter (again). You can learn from other's non-ignorant objective opinions and get soething else in your head. Believe me, if you try to follow other's advice on the matter you'll discover singers thousands of times better than Netrebko, and you'll understand our points.

    You'll lose nothing by looking for some composer's quotations about singing, and why is Netrebko not doing right. Believe me.

  • As you said, they're so cute. They're 2 biggest fans of Netrebko who don't care for her shallow voice.

  • yeah... but sometimes I feel sorry for them... Netrebko mut be making fun of her easy life of mediocrity because of these people.

    They have no respect for anyone! Surely they have hit their mothers after being neglected by the whole society, and this is the result!

    I'm not playing this game anymore, we gain nothing by introducing this kind of people to the real operatic world, better that they stay in the surface, and enjoying third class performances ;)

  • Yes leoperarm but these people are the ones who constantly praise Mediocre singers that make the headlines such as Paul Potts, Andrea Bocelli, etc.

  • of course... I understand you... that's what I call the 'surface' of opera, third-class performances. Some people investigate about their songs and all that, and there is where they find this wonderful Youtube-opera community awaiting with the real ART. Some others get drowned in ignorance, and there is where this wonderful Youtube-opera community gets them out of the system (and I think that these are pretty much pissed off to give a simple intelligent argument against you and some others) ^^.

  • Thugman, you right - Natalie Ushakova better sings - but not so nicely!

    But, with big pleasure she gives the sceptre to her best friend Natalie Ushakova!

    Then she can sing what she loves - like Renee Fleming, for example, the Marschallin from one of the nicest operas the "Rosenkavalier" and not only the overrated Italian junk - like Callas!